It would have seemed hard to believe two weeks ago, but Newcastle United could be slowly moving towards a mostly successful summer transfer window.
Whilst the Alexander Isak saga has dominated the headlines, Howe has kept the club steady over what’s been a turbulent summer.
Luckily for us, we have a host of fresh new faces who now call Tyneside their new home, including Anthony Elanga, Aaron Ramsdale, Malick Thiaw and Jacob Ramsey.
And now we have a clear idea of what to expect in the final days of the window, particularly after we recently showed interest in a respected Serie A star…
According to [Fabrizio Romano](https://x.com/inter_xtra/status/1957175275587809761?s=46), Newcastle do hold an interest in Inter Milan midfielder Davide Frattesi following links over the past 24 hours.
However, despite the Italian international being admired on Tyneside, it’s understood that the club will NOT be making a move for him this summer despite rumours in Italy of a rejected bid on Sunday morning.
With the club having already spent over £40m on bringing Ramsey to St James’ Park from Villa Park, the club’s summer budget still needs to be stretched to cover other key areas of the squad.
Now we have at least six potential midfield options – Bruno, Tonali, Joelinton, Ramsey, Miley and Willock (once he returns from injury) – it would be hard to justify bringing Frattesi in on top of that when priorities lie elsewhere over the final two weeks of the window.
Instead of signing Frattesi, and having bought Ramsey, Romano reports that our next focus will be on signing strikers
It became abundantly clear in Saturday’s opening weekend draw against Villa that we lack that clinical goalscoring threat, even when we’re dominating every other aspect of the game.
And whilst Yoane Wissa is universally expected to be coming up north from Brentford, he’s coming in as a Callum Wilson replacement if anything, and we still need more goals in the side until Isak’s potential return.
So if we were indeed going to spend £30-40m on Frattesi, that’s not a tremendous amount of money to bring in a new forward who ticks all our boxes. A late move for French forward Arnaud Kalimuendo could have been fantastic, but he now seems set for Nottingham Forest.